This sounds a lot like Craig Latta's "Spoon". Probably worth talking to him about it.
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 07:48, Erik Stel <erik.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Cedreek, > > (Part of this I mentioned on Discord as well, but not all readers will be on > Discord) > > I'm working with a tiny Smalltalk image (currently around 150Kb) which > contains basic classes (very similar to PharoCandle, but with the regular > Smalltalk names without PC-prefix, see > https://github.com/carolahp/PharoCandleSrc). It additionally supports > WebSockets when used in combination with SqueakJS, but I'm working on a > regular WebSocket-version for OpenSmalltalk-VM as well. > > The image has an ObjectEncoder/Decoder pair allowing the image to 'receive' > encoded classes and methods from a regular Smalltalk image (bytcode only, > since no compiler is present in the tine image). The tiny image can install > these classes and use them. The current 'protocol' is to send messages to > this tiny image and have the image send events back to the regular image. > The tiny image (client) is responsible for making a connection with the > regular image (server). But this protocol can be adjusted with newly > installed classes of course ;-). > > My idea (dream?) is to create small cloud images for personal use, so you > can run many on limited computing units. These images will not have file- or > FFI-support and need to retrieve data through WebSocket/HTTP/... or other > web communication technology. It is part of a project I'm working on to > learn programming in Smalltalk to kids. They can spin up an image in the > cloud (or on their Raspberry Pi at home) and load their code from a remote > repository. The development environment will run in the cloud and be usable > with a web browser. In the web browser runs a tiny image which can execu...o > wait, I explained that part already ;-). So in the web browser this same > tiny image is running (on SqueakJS). This time, it loads code to be able to > manipulate the DOM. This tiny image is sort of the Javascript replacement. > So everything is Smalltalk! :-) > > Still a long way to go though. I hope to be able to demonstrate a little of > this in a not so distant future. I will share my code as well. Everything > will be open source. > > Feel free to reach out if anyone wants to participate. ;-) > > Regards, > Erik > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >
